Wayne-Sampson County NcArchives Obituaries.....Murphy, Hugh Tate  March 1940
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/ncfiles.htm
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
tammy tyner ttyner1@nc.rr.com April 12, 2006, 3:35 pm

Goldsboro News Argus, March 12, 1940
Sampson Veteran Dies at Kecoughton

 Rosehill, March 12- Word has been received by relatives here of the death of 
Hugh Tate Murphy, veteran of the World War who served with distinction in the 
Rainbow Division, 117th Engineer company, A. E. F. Mr. Murphy was cited for 
valor in the St. Mihiel offensive. Death occurred in the hospital at 
Kecoughton, Va. Burial was in Arlington National Cemetary on Thursday, March 7.
 Born in Sampson county, the son of the late John R. and Ella Baulkman Murphy 
and a grandson of Cornelius Hugh Murphy, Confederate soldier, the deceased was 
a descendant of Hugh Murphy, who fought in the battle of Moore's Creek Bridge. 
Connected with the McMillan, Mulford and Page families of North Carolina, Mr. 
Murphy's ancestors came to Wilmington from Arron, Scotland, in 1774. For many 
years the deceased had made his home in Richmond, Va.
 The deceased is survived by a sister, Mrs. Sidney Mebane of Burlington, a 
brother, Robert Neal Murphy of Richmond, Va.; an aunt, Mrs. Margaret Rich and a 
cousin, O. M. Rich of Rosehill.  

File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/wayne/obits/m/murphy170gob.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ncfiles/

File size: 1.6 Kb